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11 Million African Lives Could Be Saved By Just A Small Investment In the next five years, 11 million African women and children could be saved by creating near-universal availability of key life-saving interventions, according to The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and the Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010). The Countdown report estimates that these interventions -- antenatal care, emergency care at the time of birth, post-natal care ...
Volunteer Ruth Clayden, from Poppleton, set for African challenge A YORK volunteer is preparing to fly to Africa after being chosen from more than 2,000 applicants to take part in an aid programme.
The Africa Business Center The Ernst & Young Africa Business Center is our way to help companies navigate the challenges and opportunities of doing business across the African continent. As the next economic growth frontier, Africa is an exciting place to do business; but also poses its unique challenges.
Brown calls for 'African century' Gordon Brown uses his first major speech since leaving office to say the development of Africa is vital for the world economy.
Cameron hoping to forge new special relationship with visit to India When David Cameron stands on the grounds of India's best-known IT company this week and makes his pitch for building a "new special relationship" between Britain and India, he will no doubt have in mind the thoughts of a previous visitor to the Infosys campus.
Gordon Brown denies he was 'bruised' by Downing Street exit Gordon Brown has given his first interview since leaving Downing Street, insisting he is ''very cheerful'' as a backbench MP.
Gordon Brown: Guess who's back? He was forced to vacate Downing Street almost three months ago and has hardly been seen since. While the coalition has struggled to establish itself as a viable Government and his own party has descended into the self-regard of a protracted leadership contest, Gordon Brown has kept remarkably silent.
Paul Kagame: Rwanda's redeemer or ruthless dictator? President Paul Kagame, the Rwandan hero who united a country torn by genocide, defends his uncompromising approach to democracy
Mauritania sentences Malian over Spanish kidnapping Source: Reuters NOUAKCHOTT, July 21 (Reuters) - A court in Mauritania has sentenced a Malian to 12 years of hard labour for his role in kidnapping three Spanish aid workers who were seized last year and held by al ...
WEST AFRICA: The Sahel's nutrition revolution Source: IRIN Food shortages and high rates of malnutrition have long been a reality in the Sahel, but the understanding of malnutrition has drastically changed since the prolonged drought in the early 1970s.
UN-led action plan for maternal and child health promising, but must address gaps at 'the last mile' to reach households World Vision - USA Renewed funding commitments needed to keep efforts from stalling: World Vision Staying the course to fight HIV&AIDS is integral to this global effort, agency affirms Vienna, 21 July 2010 The ...
Recent Releases In Global Health Blog: Global AIDS Coordinator Goosby Speaks About Uganda HIV Treatment As part of a series in advance of AIDS 2010, the "Science Speaks" blog features an interview with U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby "about his expectations for the conference, what was behind the Uganda problem with shortages of AIDS medicine, and whether The New York Times was right when it reported in May that the ...
Stephanomics What does the future hold for the eurozone?
Live Aid Memories: 'It was life-changing: my life was not all about just me anymore' Midge Ure: Co-wrote the 1984 Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas? and helped to organise Live Aid
Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 1–14 July 2010 Namibia urged to invest more in science and technology Increasing investment in science and technology could help Namibia reduce poverty, hunger, disease and unemployment, said former president Sam Nujoma last week.
Veil vote Will France criminalise women who wear the veil?
Africa's education efforts hampered by decline in western aid • Jacob Zuma calls summit to highlight schooling crisis • Long-term effects on sub-Saharan Africa's economy likely • Western donors have provided less than a fifth of $11bn pledged to universal primary education in 2000 Broken aid promises by western governments are depriving millions of African children of promised school places, the United Nations has warned. Ahead of a special education ...
Blair African charity run by banker linked to US toxic loan fraud A charity established by Tony Blair to aid the African poor is being run by a banker who helped to mastermind toxic mortgage investments at the centre of an alleged multi-million-pound fraud.
Blog: South Africa kicks off new World Cup era David Bond on how the Rainbow Nation and the World Cup have changed each other forever
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